The Great Dictator is a 1940 American anti-war, political satire, and black comedy film written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British comedian...
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A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power. A dictatorship is a state ruled by one dictator or by a polity. The word originated as the...
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The Dictator is a 2012 political satire black comedy film co-written by and starring Sacha Baron Cohen as his fourth feature film in a leading role. The...
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Charlie Chaplin (redirect from The Freak)
be held in high regard, with The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, and The Great Dictator often ranked on lists of the greatest films. Charles Spencer...
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Paris Gun (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
Allied forces in the Netherlands in 1945. A parody of the Paris Gun appears in the Charlie Chaplin movie The Great Dictator. Firing at the Cathedral of Notre...
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The Dictator may refer to: The Dictator (1915 film), a silent film comedy directed by Oscar Eagle The Dictator (1922 film), a silent film comedy directed...
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dictator in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A dictator is a ruler who does not rule through democratic means. Dictator may also refer to: Dictator (Cain...
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and The Great Dictator (1940). After signing with Paramount Pictures, Goddard became one of the studio's biggest stars with roles in The Cat and the Canary...
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The Dictators are an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973. Critic John Dougan said that they were "one of the finest and most influential...
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became widely known in the United States after comedian Charlie Chaplin parodied it in his 1940 film The Great Dictator. Comedy group The Three Stooges also...
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gibberish song. In The Great Dictator, Chaplin's first film after Modern Times, Chaplin plays the dual role of a Hitler-esque dictator, and a Jewish barber...
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and Best Original Screenplay for The Great Dictator. In 1942, Chaplin released a new version of The Gold Rush, taking the original silent 1925 film and composing...
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Henry Daniell (category Actors from the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames)
villainous roles in films such as Camille (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), Holiday (1938) and The Sea Hawk (1940). Daniell was given few opportunities to...
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Fiction (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
comedian Charlie Chaplin portrayed the eccentric despot Adenoid Hynkel in the 1940 satirical film The Great Dictator. The unhinged, unintelligent figure fictionalized...
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Reginald Gardiner (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
Chaplin's The Great Dictator. He also performed memorable turns as Beverly Carlton (a parody of Noël Coward) in The Man Who Came to Dinner, the spurned...
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Satire (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
values. The film The Great Dictator (1940) by Charlie Chaplin is itself a parody of Adolf Hitler; Chaplin later declared that he would have not made the film...
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Maurice Moscovich (category Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States)
Yiddish theatre. His 14 films, which he made at the end of his life, include Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator. Maurice Moscovich was born Morris Maaskov...
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Minichiello, Mia (2015). "The Great Dictator (film)". Salem Press Encyclopedia. Salem Press. "A Brief History of the Magic 8 Ball". www.mentalfloss.com...
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You Nazty Spy! (category The Three Stooges films)
before the Charlie Chaplin film The Great Dictator, which began filming in September 1939. You Nazty Spy! was filmed on December 5–9, 1939. The Hays code...
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Thinker in the Garden of Dr. Linde, which is now in the Behnhaus. The cast later went to the Detroit Institute of Arts. In his film The Great Dictator, Charlie...
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The Great Dictator (1940). Initially a non-charting single in the Netherlands, the song was revived by radio station 3FM in early 2015 following the Paris...
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For example, the award-winning Senegalese film Xala takes government corruption as its theme. Charlie Chaplin's film The Great Dictator was a brave and...
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Toothbrush moustache (section In the United States)
Chaplin incorporated the noted similarity between the Tramp and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler in his 1940 film The Great Dictator, playing both a Tramp-like...
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Wheeler Dryden (category Naturalized citizens of the United States)
Later, he worked at the Chaplin Studios as Charlie's assistant director on The Great Dictator and Monsieur Verdoux. He also appears in the supporting roles...
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Evil twin (section The goatee)
of the 2003 DVD release of The Great Dictator Comic books contain some other early appearances of evil twins. One example, still available on the market...
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also been used in films, for example Charlie Chaplin's character in The Great Dictator, many of Danny Kaye's patter songs, and Willie Solar's screeching...
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Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, has been represented in popular culture ever since he became a well-known politician in Germany. His...
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film The Great Dictator, satirizing Hitler and Nazism, grossed $5 million worldwide and became a classic. "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)". The Numbers...
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1940 in film (redirect from 1940 in the cinema)
Bunny makes his official debut in the animated cartoon A Wild Hare. October 15 – Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, a satirical comedy starring him...
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comedy à la The Great Dictator. Had producer Wachsberger (who died in February 1992) retained rights to the material, Lewis would have had the option to...
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